Designing Responsible End-User Subsidies for Energy Access
This report highlights the critical role of end-user subsidies (EUS) in improving access to off-grid solar (OGS) and clean cooking solutions, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where affordability is a key ...Read More
Off-Grid Solar Policy Toolkit
This Off-Grid Solar (OGS) policy toolkit is designed to assist governments in creating an enabling environment for OGS and pay-as-you-go (PAYG) sector growth by establishing policy reforms determined through a ...Read More
A Video Introduction to Service-Based Solar Electrification
Our team is working together with internal and external partners across multiple sectors to help design off-grid energy access projects with a focus on health and education services as the ...Read More
Off-Grid Public Facilities PV System Design Tool
This tool has been developed to assist with creating high-level system designs of stand-alone solar installations at public facilities for initial cost estimates and inclusion in bid specifications. Project developers ...Read More
Bid Specification Templates for Off-Grid Solar Systems
These bid specification templates build on the Requirements and Guidelines for Installation of Off-grid Solar Systems for Public Facilities and are intended to help project developers and development programs write technical bid ...Read More
The Market Opportunity for Productive Use Leveraging Solar Energy (PULSE) in Uganda
This report provides an overview of the market for productive use leveraging solar energy (PULSE) in Uganda. The report seeks to inform the strategy of industry, government, and development partners ...Read More
Gender Survey
In a recent survey of women working in the OGS sector, GOGLA and the World Bank Group’s Lighting Global (with support from the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program – ESMAP) ...Read More
Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2022: Outlook (Part 2)
The second part of the 2022 Market Trends Report, ‘Outlook’ aims to survey the outlook for the off-grid solar market and interventions needed for the sector to achieve its full ...Read More
Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2022: State of the Sector (Part 1)
The 2022 Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report, which is the sixth edition in the series, is produced by Lighting Global/ESMAP, IFC, the Efficiency for Access Coalition, GOGLA, and Open Capital ...Read More
Webinar | Key Lessons from Designing Public Funding Mechanisms in the Off-Grid Solar Sector
A webinar to discuss the findings of Lighting Global’s new report, Designing Public Funding Mechanisms in the Off-Gris Solar Sector was held on March 29, 2022. The report provides guidance ...Read More